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Hussein's Sons Are Killed;
Hopeful Sign for U.S. in Iraq

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Joseph SchumanThe Wall Street Journal Online

Updated July 22, 2003 5:19 p.m. ET

Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of the toppled Iraqi leader and Nos. 2 and 3 of the most-wanted triumvirate, were killed today during a six-hour firefight after an informant told authorities where to find them, the U.S. military said.

Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of allied ground forces in Iraq, said two of the four people killed in a raid in the northern city of Mosul were identified as the two sons of Saddam Hussein, and that authorities were still trying to confirm identities of the other two. While genetic tests were...